Kamran Shafi (DAWN) has kindly agreed to join the Oxford University Pakistan Society for a talk and Q & A session.Mr. Shafi is an influential Pakistani journalist who writes a weekly column in Dawn, a prestigious English language newspaper in Pakistan.

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Mr. Shafi writes extensively on Pakistan's security apparatus and is a leading advocate of democratic governance and civilian control over all institutions of the state, especially the military and intelligence services".

Kamran Shafi, a retired army officer, says he fears the Taliban will increasingly mimic the savagery of IS in an effort to maintain its appeal among militants.
But he also calls the latest attack a "seminal event", after which most Pakistanis, disgusted with extremism, will unite at last to oppose the Taliban.

I WRITE this on the second day of the emergency imposed by the Commando on the very country he has ruled unchallenged for eight whole years, citing all sorts of reasons mainly ranging from a loss of the state's writ across the land (as if its our fault!) to blaming the judiciary for hampering the government's anti-terrorism efforts.